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Junot Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, as well as the short story collections Drown and, most recently, This Is How You Lose Her —- a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. He's a...

The celebrated British sculptor Nicola Hicks (bn. 1960) has, in recent years, fallen in love with Aesop and his fables all over again. "Aesop is one of my heroes from deep history," she explained on a recent tour of her new exhibition at the Yale Center...

New DVD releases this week range from the continuation of a popular film series to a film that produced an Oscar-nominated performance.
"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1," Grade B: Director Francis Lawrence, the man behind "The Hunger Games:...

For the artist Karl Lund, the future is yesterday. His dramatic canvasses, roiling with action and color, are built on a fertile foundation of boyhood fascinations with futurist science fiction, comic books and psychedelic posters, but they're also...

The story of King Arthur and his knights is a familiar story in popular culture, although its legitimacy is often debated. But what if King Arthur and his Knights were real and their influence carried on throughout the ages? “The Order: 1886”...

Yasar Kemal, one of Turkey's best-known novelists whose focus on social injustices brought him into conflict with authority, died in Istanbul on Saturday. He was 91.
Kemal, best known for his first novel, "Ince Memed" or "Memed, My Hawk," also turned his...

"I keek a touchdown".
Way, way back in 1966, as an NFL rookie who knew nothing about American football, kicker Garo Yepremian allegedly said that to Detroit Lions' teammate Alex Karras after kicking for an extra point but not a touchdown. Johnny...